Braait Laaities.

Braait Laaities was first performed at the National Festival of the Arts in Grahamstown in June/July 1991. After a short season at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, the play enjoyed a national tour playing in Cape Town (Oude Libertas Amphitheatre), the Civic in Bloemfontein and the Momentum in Pretoria. Megan Willson was Moira, and Boytjie was played by Aubrey Sekhabi.

“The encounter of this ill-assorted pair is managed by Slabolepszy with great subtlety. He lets their dreams and their illusions, both touching and comic, come to light through fitful, meandering snatches of conversation; and that conversation is a delight…”

(Guy Willoughby – Financial Mail)

“… a masterstroke of sensitivity and revelation…”

(Raeford Daniel – The Weekly Mail)

“… his finest writing yet…”

(Darryl Accone – Cue, Grahamstown Festival)

“When Paul Slabolepszy wrote this emotionally incisive tragi-comedy, he must have used a scalpel with a sparkler tied to it… a sonata of self-discovery for many a lost South African generation…”

(Adrienne Sichel – The Star, Tonight!)

Set in the dusty, dreary confines of the recently desegregated HF Verwoerd Hall in Springs, Braait-Laaities… delicately charts an evening in the lives of two very ordinary people – losers who lead unsung lives on the edges of suburbia. There is Moira, the young Afrikaner girl from the telephone exchange, spending an evening away from the stern eye of her tyrannical father; and Boytjie, a black youth from the country, who dreams of stardom in Egoli…